Modern Recipes

A Tasty Way of Serving a Scottish Kids' Food Classic Wee Willie Winkie cocktail sausages and salad filled pitta bread Wee Willie Winkie sausages evoke for me many warm memories from childhood. In fact, until a couple of years ago, I thought they had long since been consigned to the annals of history and didn't for a minute imagine they were still available. It was actually only by pure coincidence that I saw them one night in my local supermarket - still sold in what is at least similar packaging - and I knew immediately that I had to buy a pack and try them again for old times' sake. While Wee Willie Winkies are aimed at and widely enjoyed by children, I decided to try experimenting with the sausages. They are commonly served cold as part of buffets on cocktail sticks so at the time I came at my experiments from the angle of producing serving ideas for cocktail sausages at parties . That's something I may develop further in future but in this instance, I wanted to com...

A Simple but Tasty Alternative to a Basic Chicken Sandwich Griddled chicken thigh fillets and sliced chorizo sandwich A chicken sandwich prepared at home for your own consumption will often be a pretty bland affair. This could be true whether you're in Scotland, Australia or virtually anywhere in between. It may just be some leftover chicken and a bit of salt between two slices of bread in a worst case scenario. When I had a couple of chicken thigh fillets leftover recently however from the Chicken Bhuna Curry Pie Recipe which I prepared and featured on this blog, I decided to think a little bit out of the box and use not only the leftover chicken but anything else I had lying around in the fridge which needed using up on my sandwich. Chicken thigh fillets Ingredients per Sandwich 2 skinless chicken thigh fillets Vegetable oil Salt and white pepper 6 thin slices Spanish chorizo 1 soft bread roll 1 tablespoon soured cream Few leaves of coriander (cilantro), roughly chopped Startin...

A Chicken Curry Pie Raised to a Whole New Level Chicken bhuna curry puff pastry pie with crushed turmeric tatties and chickpeas A chicken curry pie in Scotland (see photo below) is normally just a variation on the traditional Scotch pie which sees the pie filled with a basic chicken curry rather than with minced lamb or beef and onions. While it is a perfectly enjoyable creation, it's not perhaps the most imaginative or visually appealing of foodstuffs. What I decided to do a couple of days ago therefore was play about with the general concept and see if I could raise it to new levels of scrumptiousness. Conventional Scottish chicken curry pies The first decision I made was to make the pie similar to a steak pie rather than simply a Scotch pie. This meant it would be made in an ashet (deep pie dish) and topped with puff pastry to serve more than one person, rather than made in to individual pies using hot water pastry. I then thought about what curry to prepare and decided on an In...